Data. Personal-archive. Microsoft Photo Community Blog : Expression Media 2 Video Tutorials. By Jeff Greene / Peter Krogh and Jay Kinghorn have produced a set of podcasts discussing some of the key functions offered by Expression Media 2 for cataloguing large image collections.
Discussions include importing and downloading files, using metadata to organize collections, and the fundamental difference between File Browsers and Digital Asset Management software. Microsoft Icon of Imaging Peter Krogh explains the metadata basics and shows how you can use it's properties to create automatic, bulk, and custom metadata for your digital photo library in Microsoft Expression Media 2. Jay Kinghorn, digital photography workflow consultant and trainer, explains the differences between file browsers and asset management systems.
Internet Archive. Archiving social media at the British Library. It seems that the British Library is questioning whether to archive social media in a similar way to how it currently archives print material.
The 400 year-old establishment is currently looking into the worth of keeping public Twitter Feeds, Facebook and blog entries for posterity and as the US Library of Congress decided to start archiving public Twitter accounts back in April it’s pushed the issue to the fore. At the Independent Woodstock Literary Festival the chief executive of the British Library, Dame Lynne Brindley, spoke about the issue and made the point that many old trade and fashion magazines and other ephemera that was once considered less valuable ‘everyday material’ by the British Library have become very important in looking at changes in social and cultural history, according to the New Statesman sourced from The Independent.